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Research identifies accountant as descendant of Genghis Khan
Financial Express of India ^
| Tuesday, May 30, 2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 05/31/2006 9:34:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Tom Robinson had long wondered about his family tree. He never suspected its roots might lie in the Mongolian Steppe. The Florida accountant knew that his great, great-grandfather had come to the United States from England - but beyond that his research drew a blank... Robinson thinks his forebear, whose name has long been a byword for violence and cruelty, has had a bad press. "In addition to being a conqueror, he was a great administrator," said Robinson, who has been reading up on Genghis Khan. "Their system of governance was fairly sophisticated."
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; genghiskhan; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mongolmassmurderers
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To: Gay State Conservative
Citi Bank Commercials?!
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posted on
06/01/2006 5:52:41 AM PDT
by
neb52
To: SunkenCiv
Turns out Tom Robinson is an accountant for Capital One.
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posted on
06/01/2006 6:02:07 AM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
To: neb52
Citi Bank Commercials?! Nope.It's a reference to the Monty Python skit about accountants that's depicted in the photo at the top of this thread.
Like many of their skits,it's hilarious.
To: SunkenCiv
KHAAAAANN!!! I'm being audited!!!!!
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posted on
06/01/2006 6:06:47 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(Truth is the new lie.)
To: jwfiv
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posted on
06/01/2006 7:54:06 AM PDT
by
Serb5150
(Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!)
To: Hegemony Cricket
Well, to be more accurate:
"Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats."
And
"Mr Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back. Mr Prosser was often bothered with visions like these and they made him feel very nervous. He stuttered for a moment and then pulled himself together."
or
"He saw the bulldozer driver's union representative approaching and let his head sink back and closed his eyes. He was trying to marshal his arguments for proving that he did not now constitute a mental health hazard himself. He was far from certain about this — his mind seemed to be full of noise, horses, smoke, and the stench of blood. This always happened when he felt miserable and put upon, and he had never been able to explain it to himself. In a high dimension of which we know nothing the mighty Khan bellowed with rage, but Mr Prosser only trembled slightly and whimpered. He began to fell little pricks of water behind the eyelids. Bureaucratic cock-ups, angry men lying in the mud, indecipherable strangers handing out inexplicable humiliations and an unidentified army of horsemen laughing at him in his head — what a day."
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posted on
06/01/2006 9:13:33 AM PDT
by
Starter
(He just liked axes, okay?)
To: Starter
Thanks for the helpng hand! Great Stuff!
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posted on
06/01/2006 9:18:10 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Seems to me you've lived your life like a Camel in the wind - blowing smoke from both ends)
To: Hegemony Cricket; thoughtomator
:') I was thinking of the time machine joke.
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posted on
06/01/2006 9:28:35 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
please elaborate - I've got alot going today, and I'm not following that, but I could use a laugh...
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posted on
06/01/2006 9:47:13 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Seems to me you've lived your life like a Camel in the wind - blowing smoke from both ends)
To: SunkenCiv
A descendant of Genghis Khan?
An accountant?
He must work for the IRS.
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posted on
06/01/2006 5:08:38 PM PDT
by
curmudgeonII
(One man...and the Lord...are a majority.)
To: SunkenCiv
Did you mean to say "Jen-gus Kahn?"
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posted on
06/07/2006 7:35:03 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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